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June 2025 – Andrew, Jake, Marco, Ohmin, Jun & Rosa present at the Canadian Chemistry Conference(CSC 2025)
The Canadian Chemistry Conference (CSC2025) was held in Ottawa this year. Group members Andrew and Marco gave oral presentations in the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Biomolecular, Materials, and Molecular Design’ session. Jake, Andrew, Ohmin, Jun and Rosa presented posters.
Jake presenting his poster
- Jake presenting his poster
May 2025 – Andrew’s MOSAEC paper has been published in JACS
May 2025 – congratulations to Andrew White and other group members whose paper on identifying structural errors in MOF databases has been published in JACS:
White, A.; Gibaldi, M.; Burner, J.; Mayo, R.A.; Woo, T.K.* “High structural error rates in MOF databases used in data driven workflows identified via a novel metal oxidation state-based method”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 17579–17583. link
May 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Sari who were awarded scholarships
Congratulations to Sari who was awarded a national NSERC USRA fellowship and to Sydney who was awarded a WISE scholarship from the University – both to work in the lab during the summer.
April 2025 – Congrats to Sydney and Rhiannon for their award winning undergrad theses.
Congratulations to Sydney and Rhiannon for successfully defending their undergrad thesis work. Rhiannon was awarded the best undergraduate thesis in Chemistry and Sydney was awarded the Hypercube undergraduate thesis award. Sydney’s thesis was titled “The Effect Of Chemically Invalid Metalorganic Frameworks On The Predictive Abilities Of Machine Learning Models” and Rhiannon’s thesis was titled ” A Computational Workflow for Identifying Novel Organic Linkers in MOFs for CO2 Capture”.
April 2025 – Prof. Woo joins the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry
Professor Woo was invited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Chemistry.
August 2024 – Two Patent Applications from the Group Made
The group has applied for two patent applications from research funded by TotalEnergies:
Kapeliukha, A.; Gibaldi, M.; White, A.; Woo, T.K. “PROCESSING IN SILICO CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS” International Patent Application PCT/IB2024/000468
White, A.; Gibaldi, M.; Woo, T.K. “ASSIGNING METAL OXIDATION STATES” International Patent Application PCT/IB2024/000468
January 2024 – Our ARC-MOF paper in Chemistry of Materials Editor’s highlights of 2023
Jake’s ARC-MOF paper was highlighted by the editor’s of Chemistry of Materials annual 2023 year in review
Burner et al. “ARC-MOF: A Diverse Database of MOFs with DFT-Derived Partial Atomic Charges and Descriptors for Machine Learning”, Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35, 900. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02485
January 2024 – The Woo lab hosts the annual meeting for the ACO2RDS project
The Woo lab is part of the multi-disciplinary ACO2RDS project involving several research groups from Canada, USA, Germany and France. The goal is to study and develop adsorption based CO2 capture systems. This year the lab hosted the annual meeting at the University of Ottawa.
May 2021 – Marco, Scott and Victoria join the lab.
May 2021 – Marco, Scott and Victoria join the lab. Marco as a Ph.D. candidate, Scott as a M.Sc. candidate and Victoria as a undergraduate summer student.
April 2021 – Jake awarded a NSERC CGS-D Scholarship
April 2021 – Congratulations to Jake for being awarded a NSERC CGS-D scholarship. This is Canada’s top national graduate scholarship.
